Award-winning technology journalist Alexander Wolfe is editor-in-chief of InformationWeek.com, where he has achieved a solid track record of managing and collaborating with a team and generating significant online traffic growth. He has been involved in several start-up sites, and is also well-versed in the application of SEO, SEM, and social networking toward building audience and brand equity.
Alex is the also the author of two InformationWeek Analytics research reports: 2010 State of Server Technology, (June 2010) and IT Pro: Enterprise 2.0 Applications (Feb. 2011).
Wolfe's coverage of Intel, Microsoft, Google, and cutting-edge technologies has been recognized for its insight, ability to translate complicated concepts into readable prose, and forward-thinking analysis.
The Wolfe's Den blog was a finalist in the 2008 Jesse H. Neal Awards, and its Server Den offshoot has become the go-to commentary destination for a deep-tech take on high-end computing. Wolfe is also a video blogger and was on MSNBC in December 2010 to discuss Apple's iPad.
In his two decades as a technology editor, he has written and edited for IEEE Spectrum, Byte.com, Electronics magazine, and TechWeb. Wolfe was the launch editor for WindowsforDevices.com and has written extensively on embedded computing. At EE Times, Alex broke the acclaimed 1994 story of the Pentium floating-point division bug.
Alex has appeared as an industry analyst on CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC.
He is co-author of "From Chips to Systems: An Introduction to Microcomputers, 2nd Edition." His Op-Ed pieces have appeared in The New York Times and Newsday, and he has won five Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) writing awards and an award from the Association of American Publishers.
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Columns
Wolfe's Den: Intel Inches Into Its Next Big Market
January 27, 2011
Diversifying beyond the PC, Intel's multi-billion dollar embedded computing push envisions Atom processors in millions of appliances, Smart TVs, and other connected devices.
Wolfe's Den: Top Technologies To Watch In 2011, Part 1
January 03, 2011
A shift in the way we think about security, along with predictions about the death of the desktop, the rise of the "Internet of Things," and HP's rebound from the Hurd scandal are on our columnist's list of prognostications for the new year.
Wolfe's Den: Cisco Seeks To Rule The Cloud
December 07, 2010
The networking behemoth intends to automate cloud deployment, as spotlighted via its just-announced partnership with BMC. We chat with Lew Tucker, Cisco's chief technology officer of cloud computing, who talks about cloud-o-nomics, interoperability standards and how Cisco aims to be the go-to supplier of equipment to cloud providers.
Wolfe's Den: Airport Scanner Patents Promise Not To Show Your 'Junk'
November 29, 2010
Rapiscan, the company supplying the controversial x-ray backscatter screeners, has won a patent for a machine which detects threats "with minimum display of anatomical details." Its competitors, and body scanner pioneer Martin Annis, are also pursuing enhanced privacy approaches. Here are the technology details.
Top 5 Reasons Intel Is Winning And 4 Potential Pitfalls
November 16, 2010
Wins include the dominance of the Xeon server processor and research into data centers on a chip, while stumbling blocks center on a second-place communications chip business and settling on a potential successor to CEO Paul Otellini.
Top 5 Tech Trends For 2011
October 23, 2010
Big ideas heard at the InformationWeek 500 conference include a renewed focus on innovation, the importance of data visualization, and the ongoing agony of maintenance fees.
Top 5 Reasons Windows Phone 7 Will/Won't Succeed
October 16, 2010
Our columnist makes the possibly contrarian assertion that, with Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is reinvigorating the smartphone. Read his take and see if you agree or not.
Innovation Mandate: An Interview With Craig Barrett
October 02, 2010
An interview with the former Intel chairman about the state of U.S. technological competitiveness and the need for better secondary science education.
Hurd In, Phillips Out As Oracle President
September 06, 2010
Oracle has hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd to be its president, replacing Charles Phillips, who has resigned. Hurd will take the reins of Oracle's strategy of combining software and hardware, as it battles IBM.
Server Technology Hits A Crossroads
September 06, 2010
Highlights of exclusive InformationWeek Analytics research as it appears in "State Of Server Technology 2010," our report evaluating changes in the server market motivated by the push to consolidate data center systems, get power and cooling costs under control and make the most of the cloud.
Wolfe's Den: Mad Rush For Enterprise 2.0 Patents
August 07, 2010
Vendors are vying to lock up rights to the social-enterprise. Here's a selective look at cool patent tech from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText , and SAP, as well as two surprising newcomers.
In Cutting Off Hurd, Is HP Spiting Its Face?
August 06, 2010
Our Wolfe's Den columnist wonders whether Hewlett-Packard's board isn't taking the easy way out--and potentially reducing future shareholder value--by forcing CEO Mark Hurd to resign.
Wolfe's Den: Top 5 Enterprise 2.0 Roadblocks
June 23, 2010
Our columnist identifies the challenges which could derail social enterprise tools, as Cisco and IBM battle to turn businesses into Facebook-like collaboration environments. With counterpoint from JP Rangaswami, Murali Sitaram, and Ted Schadler.
Microsoft Takes Supercomputing To The Cloud
May 22, 2010
Buried beneath the bland verbiage announcing Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative on Monday is some really exciting stuff.
Server Den: CA Seeks IT Automation Sweet Spot
May 18, 2010
Don Ferguson, chief technology officer of CA Technologies, talks about work to build IT management tools that'll bring transparency to highly virtual and dynamic enterprise architectures.
Server Den: Cisco Turning UCS Into Server Battleground
April 26, 2010
John McCool, general manager of Cisco's Data Center group, talks about the networking powerhouse's Unified Computing System strategy as well as the increasing enterprise impact of virtualization and video.
Branding Brilliance Behind Cisco's Borderless Networks
March 18, 2010
Our Server Den columnist says that Cisco is smartly encapsulating the deep technology of next-gen networks supporting mobile workers and streaming video, but Juniper and HP ProCurve won't stand idly by.
Server Den: IBM Reloads Enterprise Branding March 8, 2010
IBM will adopt "Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet" as its data center marketing moniker, putting distance between today's "dynamic infrastructure" and the me-too catch phrases used by competitors.
Server Den: Juniper Fires Back At Cisco CRS-3 March 11,2010
As the networking behemoths battle over router speed claims, both are attempting to cement public personas, and clue in non-technical consumers on who they are.
Server Den: AMD Emphasizes Energy Efficient Opterons February 18, 2010
Our columnist interviews AMD chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau, who talks about the scrappy chip vendor's upcoming processors, the four stages of virtualization, and why scale-out servers could be the platform of the future.
Server Den Q&A: Dell CTO Elucidates Efficient Enterprise February 9, 2010
Paul Prince, chief technology officer of Dell's Enterprise Product Group, discusses his company's efficient enterprise strategy, and explains why virtualization and cloud computing are on the same continuum.
Server Den: Inside HP's Converged Infrastructure February 2, 2010
Gary Thome, chief architect of HP's Infrastructure Software and Blades group, talks power and cooling like you've never heard it before. Plus, why he thinks Hewlett-Packard's data-center play tops Cisco.
Wolfe's Den: IBM Patenting Airport Security Profiling Technology
January 19, 2010
A dozen "secret" patent applications define a sophisticated scheme for airport terminal and perimeter protection, incorporating potential support for computer implementation of passenger behavioral profiling to detect security threats.
Server Den Asks Infoblox: What's Infrastructure 2.0?
January 12, 2010
Greg Ness, senior director of the networking automation vendor, talks about managing infrastructure sprawl and offers insight into the standards-oriented Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group, of which Cisco is a member.
CES Den: Cisco Video Thrust Telegraphs Bandwidth-Bandit Strategy January 7, 2010
Cisco CEO John Chambers' plan to support live consumer videoconferencing is a smart stealth move to drive bandwidth demands, and capture the resulting uptick in networking sales. Here's a strategic assessment.
Apple iSlate Chatter Obscures Device Significance December 26, 2009
Apple's expected release of a humongous-screened iPod will legitimize the platform for business users. It could, in turn, revive Windows-based tablets and make Webpads the big alt.platform story of 2010.
Q &A: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
November 21, 2009
Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip giant, talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking.
Wolfe's Den: HP Revs Data Center Strategy, Stabbing At Cisco
November 05, 2009
Hewlett-Packard has fired back at Cisco in the increasingly contentious race to field an overarching data-center strategy, which will enable enterprises to rein in the complexity of sprawling networks and rampant virtualization.
Wolfe's Den Podcast: Windows 7 Virtually Speaking
November 02, 2009
Our columnist ponders the demise of virtual private networks (VPNs), examines virtual hard disks (VHDs), and chats with Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft's Windows client general manager, and Ward Ralston, Windows Server product manager.
Wolfe's Den Interview: HP ProCurve Chief Technology Officer Paul Congdon
October 19, 2009
The CTO of Hewlett-Packard's network equipment division talks about virtualization, managing sprawl, where cloud computing fits in, and his IEEE standards work to make Ethernet the single converged fabric in the data center.
Wolfe's Den: Less Client, More Cloud For Microsoft After Windows 7
October 12, 2009
Intriguing evidence points to the fact that cloud computing services for both enterprises and consumers--in the form of Azure and Windows Live--will loom larger in Microsoft's future than anyone realizes.
Wolfe's Den Podcast: Trend Micro Takes Security To The Cloud
September 27, 2009
Eva Chen, CEO and co-founder of Trend Micro, talks about what cloud-computing users should do to secure their data and how her company is itself using the cloud to protect against the explosion of malware.
Wolfe's Den: Why Intel's Reorg Puts Maloney In CEO Successor Seat
September 21, 2009
How Intel's painful efforts to diversify beyond computer processors have dogged president Paul Otellini, and why they'll challenge Sean Maloney, the man viewed as next in line to lead the company following a management shakeup.
Wolfe's Den: AMD, Intel Remake Servers From Processor Up
September 09, 2009
Faster chips, which deliver an unprecedented bounty of CPU cycles at more efficient power levels, are opening up a new chapter in the reinvention of the data center. The latest crop includes AMD's Istanbul and Magny-Cours Opterons and Intel's Nehalem-EX Xeon.
Wolfe's Den: Recession Or Bust, R&D Spend HP Must
August 19, 2009
Research means different things to different companies. For Apple, it's its lifeblood. Microsoft's lab cranks code. At Intel, R&D is in the DNA. So what is it at HP, where Q3 R&D spending was recently slashed by $228 million?
Wolfe's Den: Mixed Review For Windows 7 Release Candidate
May 26, 2009
Our columnist loves the performance -- and impressive enterprise ecosystem -- of the upcoming successor to Vista. But he wonders if Microsoft isn't missing a chance to offer more help to the average PC user.
Wolfe's Den: AP Vs. Google Proves Web No Longer Wants To Be So Free
April 07, 2009
Online reuse has long been governed by a culture in which China is only slightly more of an intellectual-property outlier than your average 13-year-old Limewire music-file thief. But newspapers are now mad as heck (also, broke) and they're not gonna take it anymore.
Wolfe's Den: Windows 7 Deep Dive
March 03, 2009
Fresh from a Microsoft briefing, we delve into the key enterprise features of Windows 7, reveal some technical Powerpoint slides from Redmond, and wrap everything up with an opinionated video.
Wolfe's Den: Making Book On Windows 7
February 04, 2009
Here's why Microsoft's upcoming successor to Vista will be a winner. Our columnist also visually walks you through his experiences installing the Windows 7 pre-beta and beta.
First Look: Microsoft's Windows 7
January 02, 2009
Screen shots of the Vista successor, which was distributed as a beta at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google's Android Alliance March 26, 2008
If you think the Google Phone is all talk, you're wrong: Here are eight technologies--GPS, multimedia, mobile Web browsing, gaming graphics, and more--which Open Handset Alliance members will bring to the upcoming mobile handset.
